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quote:Originally posted by The Bug Zapper : Don't be discouraged. Just don;t attach a bug to a gold coin or the Hope Diamond or anything and go for it. Some folks just hang on to bugs for a few weeks. i.e. maybe they got the bug and got sick or went out of town or just plain forgot to log it. I have seen bugs show up after they were deemed lost. Hookit up to something not easily carried in a pocket. One connected to a pocketknife or a mini flashlight might be carreid around for awhile and forgotten or lost. I just had one that was connected to a piece of a model train car that was too bulky to pocket,a nd so it found it's way into another cache in only a couple of hours.

quote:Originally posted by The Bug Zapper : Don't be discouraged. Just don;t attach a bug to a gold coin or the Hope Diamond or anything and go for it. Some folks just hang on to bugs for a few weeks. i.e. maybe they got the bug and got sick or went out of town or just plain forgot to log it. I have seen bugs show up after they were deemed lost. Hookit up to something not easily carried in a pocket. One connected to a pocketknife or a mini flashlight might be carreid around for awhile and forgotten or lost. I just had one that was connected to a piece of a model train car that was too bulky to pocket,a nd so it found it's way into another cache in only a couple of hours.

quote:Originally posted by Ukulele Andy: I have looked for two travel bugs that according to the website should've been in the caches I found but it was not to be. I've also discovered two other caches with log entries indicating the same. UKULELE ANDY I just noticed on the page listing caches close to me that "mindy" was recently placed in "bubbling crude" - yet if you search for the bug it states it's present location is 'daily Crofter". Apparenly the previous person was savvy enough on how the site works to log the fact he found the cache and listed what he put in it - but either forgot or didn't know how to update the bug itself. I plan to go to this cache myself tomorrow and if the bug is there I will take posessionof it and so get it back in the system, but dues this happen often?

quote:Originally posted by Ukulele Andy: I have looked for two travel bugs that according to the website should've been in the caches I found but it was not to be. I've also discovered two other caches with log entries indicating the same. UKULELE ANDY I just noticed on the page listing caches close to me that "mindy" was recently placed in "bubbling crude" - yet if you search for the bug it states it's present location is 'daily Crofter". Apparenly the previous person was savvy enough on how the site works to log the fact he found the cache and listed what he put in it - but either forgot or didn't know how to update the bug itself. I plan to go to this cache myself tomorrow and if the bug is there I will take posessionof it and so get it back in the system, but dues this happen often?

I know there is the official dog tag looking thing, and I just bought a pack of them and plan to use the official kind myself. I did notice, however, that "moun10bike"s coins are in the regular index as travel bugs. Since travel bugs are apparently tracked by serial number, someone would have to assign a serial number to a bug issued by anyone other than geocaching.com itself. Question I have then is - what other than the official dogtag is in the system as a legitimate indexed bug? Obviously moun10bike's coins are. How about the texas or canadian coins? Anything else? Just curious.

quote:It was full of religious stuff, mostly traks from a church plus a bunch of jesus pins and stuff. some bumper stickers saying "god said it I beleive it" and some mini bibles too. the website said it was full of "goodies". we didn't think this was goodies. is this normal for goecaching cus a lot of the ones in our area were put there by the same person as the one we found. we looked at the persons profile they are obviously very religious. What people seem to put in thiese things appears to be a reflection of themselves. In my case they tend to be full of bits of army stuff, patches, buttons, belt buckles etc. as I just retired from the army and I got a bunch of this stuff I'll never need again. There are a lot of cache's out there which consist of nothing but the logbook - and still more that consist of nothing at all but a location.

quote:Originally posted by cachew nut: Most of the watchers will most like be past visitors. The watch list usually increases with each find. I watch all the caches I've found, except some virtuals, and enjoy reading the logs. When I read the log that's emailed to me, I try to compare notes of my experience at that location. Same here - my watch list consists of wher eI have been - mainly because I'm curiout to see who will choose to take the things I left there. By the way, just what IS the icon I used on this post? I don't recognize what it's supposed to be....

I like the way cache's that I have found go to the bottom of the page, but it should go beyond that. I would prefer an option to take them completely OFF. It should be the 25 closest cache's that I can actually find. Ones I have already found should be on a separate list or page - I see no reason for having them on the same one. I see no reason to list unavailable caches at all. What's the point?